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Rampant software errors may undermine scientific results
The opportunities for both subtle and profound errors in software and data management are boundless, yet they remain surprisingly underappreciated. Here I estimate that any reported scientific result could very well be wrong if data have passed through a computer, and that these errors may remain la...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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F1000Research
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26539290 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5930.2 |
| Sumario: | The opportunities for both subtle and profound errors in software and data management are boundless, yet they remain surprisingly underappreciated. Here I estimate that any reported scientific result could very well be wrong if data have passed through a computer, and that these errors may remain largely undetected. It is therefore necessary to greatly expand our efforts to validate scientific software and computed results. |
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